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In the years immediately following the great grunge explosion of 1991, the entire world seemed to be looking at Seattle.Few bands were bigger than Nirvana, especially after Nevermind knocked Michael Jackson’s Dangerous from the top of the albums chart. Pearl Jam’s Ten peaked at No. 2 a few months down the road, and they drew in crowds at the Lollapalooza festival that were bigger than what the headliners did.Alice in Chains released Dirt on Sept. 29, and Stone Temple Pilots — an…

While most remember exactly where they were when they first heard Kurt Cobain died on April 5, 1994, Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl reveals that when it happened he’d already been told once in his life that the singer had passed.In Grohl’s new memoir, The Storyteller: Tales of Life and Music, the onetime Nirvana drummer recalls getting a devastating phone call one month prior after Cobain had overdosed at a hotel in Rome. During that call,…

Nirvana’s iconic album Nevermind, which helped jumpstart the grunge movement in Seattle, turned 30 last week on Sept. 24. Rocker and widow of Kurt Cobain, Courtney Love, believes that if “In Bloom” had been the first single rather than “Smells Like Teen Spirit” and another band had blown up first, Cobain might have lived.“Life would have turned out simpler and better had I been heard,” she told the L.A. Times [via Stereo Gum]. “I’m not really a fan of the idea…